Things could have gone out of control yesterday during a fireside chat with Nvidia's chief, - and moderated by analyst Jon Peddie - when it was interrupted by an activist handing out anti-Nvidia flyers about the chip recall issue....

I just came back from a meeting in San Francisco with France's minister Eric Besson (pictured), concluding his 3-days visit in Silicon Valley. One of the French minister's mission is to transform France into a "digital power". Minister Besson...

Last month, Skydeck released the beta version of its mobile phone app. By the end of the year, the 1-year-old company plans to formally launch the application and itself, according to CEO Jason Devitt. Skydeck's software allows users to...

Tiny Pictures likes to say your mobile phone is your social network. That's because its Radar application for mobile phones and computers lets groups of friends share photos and videos, and then comment back and forth. Already the service...

"We can probably get to break even very shortly," quipped Bart Decrem, CEO of the startup Tapulous, over dinner Tuesday. Tapulous is the maker of the popular (if somewhat frivolous) musical Tap Tap Revenge (pictured) application for the iPhone...

Time to have a break from Nvision and head to much cooler San Francisco for a Mobile Web Roundtable dinner moderated by Mitch Lasky of VC firm Benchmark Capital at Orson restaurant. Present at the event are the executives...

Ambitious targets for lowering the cost of solar cells are achievable as today's high cost of silicon comes down, SunPower co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Richard Swanson (pictured) said Tuesday. Today, solar cells remain relatively high priced – at...

Just got out of the interview with Dan Vivoli (pictured), the man in charge of NVIDIA's GPU businesses and also Sr VP Marketing. Vivoli first confirmed that inspite rumours, Nividia "has no desire to exit the chipset business (from...

Intel is repeating its Nehalem strategy to anyone who will listen in briefings that generally mimic one another. The company appeared in the past month at IDF, Siggraph, etc. Little new was discussed from one appearance to the next....

First thing today, I'll be covering the Emerging Companies Summit hosted at the Nvision conference with presentations from over 60 companies leveraging the power of GPUs for both visual and high-performance computing applications (and not only games!). The Summit...

Although I enjoyed the appearance of Battlestar Galactica actress Tricia Helfer at the end of Nvidia's keynote, I thought it was not really necessary as it purpose was to show how actors deal with virtual characters. Which is no...

According to Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang (pictured), it was him who insisted to tell the world about the quality issues in some of the Nvidia chips. Not his customers -the PC makers- who were more concerned that the press...

Nvidia is cozying up to Via's Nano processor. "VIA has a really terrific CPU, the Nano... You put Nano with GeForce together and you put a box around it, you'd think it's a high-performance computer. Everything works: Blu-Ray works,...

According to Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, the main reason for creating Nvision was that there was no industry event for the visual computing eco-system. When I asked him about Siggraph, here's what he answered: "People who go to Siggraph...

The graphics industry is on the verge of a powerful transformation that will bring three-dimensional video displays and screens to computers and other computing devices. "We are on the cusp of a display revolution," Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang...

Nvidia's chief took another swipe at Intel's planned Larrabee graphics chip on Monday, at the Nvision 2008 conference, suggesting the chip would trail Nvidia's best effort several years from now when it is expected in the market. In past...

Critics have dubbed Nvision 2008 as the anti-Intel Developer Forum (IDF). But when asked, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang refuted the idea joking that "it's not quite that unambitious, that's just a non-objective" and suggesting on the contrary that Nvidia's...

Today, AMD revealed that it sold its Digital TV business, that came with its ATI acquisition, to partner and rival Broadcom for $192.8 million in cash. That's below the $250 million to $375 million that analyst firm American Technology...

August is undoubtedly the month of Semiconductor. It started with the Flash Memory Summit for all things Flash Memory, then Intel's IDF and this week super technical Hot Chips conference is being held in Stanford University and graphics chip...